Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun pl] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not the most exciting of prospects maybe but even so , I was having a good time . |
| 2 | Divergence across the fault leads to subsidence and the formation of shallow , elongated troughs or sags , typically a few tens of metres across and a few hundred metres long , which , many contain a sag pond . |
| 3 | It is too redolent of rooms upstairs and days gone by . |
| 4 | Provided the springboard doctrine is sensibly applied and injunctions granted only in the clearest of cases so that the recipient of the information is not effectively placed in a worse position than if he had not received it , the interests of both the supplier of the information and the recipient can be satisfied . |
| 5 | The result was a hunt for the biochemical mechanism of memory at what was a fundamentally mistaken level — that of molecules rather than the brain systems in which molecules are embedded . |
| 6 | Most awards tend to be hundreds of pounds rather than the tens of thousands in private compensation you read about in the papers — but as Victim Support director Helen Reeves ( pictured above ) points out : ‘ Compensation is an important way of acknowledging that such crime is not acceptable . |
| 7 | By listening in to these , guinea fowl could hear storms hundreds of kilometres away and so have advance warning of a change in the weather . |
| 8 | Lehr Brisbin , of the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory in South Carolina , believes that radiocaesium , which accumulates in those tissues eaten by humans , could be present in quantities hundreds of times higher than the average in the area . |
| 9 | And even though each individual temperate tree may support a host of other species ( scores of different insects on an oak , for example ) the total list of temperate forest animals is also many hundreds of times lower than in tropical forests . |
| 10 | The system is so sensitive that the organs can detect changes in temperature as small as 0.003 degrees Celsius , while they can respond to such changes in an incredible 35 milliseconds — many hundreds of times faster than any human-made device . |
| 11 | Unbroken , that is , except for a tiny barn , a grey stone speck just visible on the last airy swell hundreds of feet up where the hillside joined the moorland above . |
| 12 | At a polling station in Kompong Cham , a photographer confronted by the sight of hundreds of voters rather than piles of corpses , spun on his heels and announced , ‘ This whole thing is a farce . ’ |
| 13 | On every occasion there was a suicide attempt , we would find out that the other had attempted suicide at the identical time , even though they may have been hundreds of miles apart and not seen each other for months . |
| 14 | EC commitments kept John Major 's Mr Europe hundreds of miles away when 26-year-old Julian asked sweetheart Anna to marry him . |
| 15 | Travelling at over 100,000 mph — dozens of times faster than a rifle bullet — it would vapourise on impact , excavating a vast crater hundreds of miles across and filling the atmosphere with scalding steam and rock vapour . |
| 16 | Affective rather than rational , originating by chance hundreds of years ago and according to individual choices made in small communities , later expanding through the demographic growth of tribes and peoples , family systems perpetuate themselves by inertia … this combination of anthropological types , coming down to us from an indeterminate past , has in the twentieth century played a trick on the ideal of modernity . |
| 17 | I wonder what travellers did hundreds of years ago when there were no proper roads and no streetlights or signposts ? ’ |
| 18 | The Black Hairstreak was at it 's height hundreds of years ago when this was all Royal Forest.Enthusiasts hope with the right care this King of butterflies wll once again rule the woodlands of Oxfordshire . |
| 19 | We know from the pottery of the Chimu period that the Incas were cultivating potatoes during the 13th Century but we believe that for many hundreds of years before that the Quecho Indians had enjoyed a staple diet of wild potatoes and had even developed an ingenious method of freeze-drying them to provide food throughout the winter months . |
| 20 | Needless to say , that ‘ artist ’ was not selected by Nikki Milican — the festival 's director — who attended hundreds of events up and down the country . |
| 21 | Mozart may have sorted through hundreds of librettos discontentedly and only produced his masterpieces after finding a poet able to construct the librettos he needed , but , in his apprentice years , he had set the standard texts of the professional theatre hacks . |
| 22 | Birds are great memory joggers , evocative of times past and places visited . |
| 23 | The force of this interpretation is further strengthened by Mary Douglas 's observation that Lele women who produce twin births are compared to animals , since multiple births are characteristic of animals rather than of humans . |
| 24 | He took hundreds of photographs and Katy thought Cousin Jane and Mike must be tired of photographs too because they climbed into a white car and the car drove away while the man kept clicking his camera again and again . |
| 25 | The society will consider carrying out a survey of solicitors ' charges for conveyancing to compare them with those of competitors here and with professions in other countries . |
| 26 | Some scientists — and we should add hastily that they are in a small minority — feel that this is mincing words : they feel that by ‘ forever ’ we should mean an infinite number of billions of years rather than a period whose duration can be estimated . |
| 27 | My own mind seemed full of memories already and I could n't imagine storing away the new ones as years and years went by . |
| 28 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 29 | I think perhaps one difference is they 've become much larger and more complicated and I certainly think that parents in particular tend to expect far more of schools now than they used to . |
| 30 | The liberal-democratic constitution is seen as the only context and as the be-all-and-end-all of things so that the economic and societal context of power and the constraints which this imposes on Cabinet and Prime Minister alike are outside of the framework of serious consideration . |